Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Modius

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MOD'IUS and MOD'IUM. The principal dry measure of the Romans containing sixteen sextarii, or the sixth part of the Greek medimnus, something like the English peck. Its principal use was for measuring corn after it had been threshed; differing in this from the corbis, which was employed for measuring corn in the ear, that had not been cut with its straw by the sickle, but nicked off under the ear with a serrated or forked instrument (falx denticulata, merga. Cato, R. R. 136. Hor. Ep. i. 16. 55. Cic. Div. Verr. 10.) The illustration (Modius/1.1) is copied from a terra-cotta lamp, evidently intended to represent a modius, from the introduction of several shocks of corn, which in the original design are placed by its side.

2. The sheath or socket in which the mast of a ship is fixed. Isidor. Orig. xix. 2. 9.

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